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Return To OOV: 23 Amnesty News Collections, 88% Amnesty Cheerleading

Having been on the road and off line for most of the past 3 weeks I poured a stiff drink and caught up with One Old Vet today. The new host makes the site much more efficient: OOV continues to be the default news source on the 2013 Amnesty campaign.

Since my last reviewOOV has posted 23 Amnesty news compendiums containing on my reckoning 550 items. Of these on my count fully 88.4% – 486 – were either Amnesty cheerleading or triumphalism – and most of the remainder just expressions of skepticism about the smoothness of the process. As Mickey Kaus has observed, the MSM exclusion of dissent is virtually total.

The hardest thing about enforcing a limit on immigration is requiring us to say no to people who remind us of our ancestors, who are neither criminals nor national security threats, who just want to work hard for a better life. And if they come in violation of our limit, we have to deport them to raise the costs of illegal immigration and deter other would-be illegal immigrants.

Can we do that? If not, we should declare the borders open to all hardworking immigrants like our ancestors. We can save billions in taxpayer dollars spent trying to enforce immigration limits.

Other than that, reasoned statements of opposition were very scarce and in minor publications or MSM associated blogs. An good sample of the former was Blanket amnesty will worsen our problems by Bill Perry The Valley Breeze 4/3/2013

The numbers are too large. Race, religion, ethnicity – none of these matter. It`s the numbers, pure and simple. Our population growth is unsustainable. We cannot provide education, health care, jobs, infrastructure – the list goes on. Almost all the growth is due to immigration (both legal and illegal.)